Welcome to the pleasure dome!

Well the by-election is over! And we came second! Proceedings were of course marred by the sheer bad manners and bad temper exhibited by the Liberal Democrats one it became obvious they were going to come last (couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people!). Having run a totally unprincipled and dishonest campaign I personally am not at all surprised it came back and bit them full and squarely on the backside, but it seems they think they deserved netter! Although what for is beyond me. They have, in the very short space of 2 years (well slightly less if we are honest) created a black hole financially of over 7 million pounds, lost money on previously profitable events such as the Balloon Festival and consistently made themselves unanswerable to the electorate of Northampton Borough. When Barrack Obama received a vote in the New Duston by-election (remind me to write and tell him) one of the female Lib Dem Councillors (who shall remain nameless) remarked that she "did not understand why people did that". When I pointed out that it was called Democracy and that individuals died to give other individuals the right to use their ballot paper however they so desire (personally I would rather members of the electorate made paper aeroplanes out of them than not use them at all!) she then asked me if "I knew who she was', well yes, but so what, you are no more important than any other member of the electorate, in fact possibly less so as you're position is wholly dependent upon those who vote for you, and given the performance of the Lib Dem Council in Northampton are unlikely to vote for you again unless you get your fingers out and do what you were elected to do which is serve the people not your own importance and self-interest! So that's my tantrum over with for now, god bless democracy and all who sail in her!

Happy Days are here again.....

Now here I was naively thinking that this whole politics thing was about winning , beating the Tories, and representing the electorate as best you can. Silly me, although after all these years I suppose I should know better! I did NOT think that it was about having to fight with members of my own party at the most basic level, regarding integrity, honesty and trust. I resent having my knowledge, integrity and abilities being questioned by members from other constituencies, who quite frankly are behaving like schoolchildren telling tales to teacher, only being aware of (at most) half the facts. It is no wonder the electorate think that politicians are out of touch because quite frankly most of them are, even with members of their own Party!